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PINNED Configure maintenance flyouts
User interface settings include the option “Show maintenance notes”. How can I as onprem-backend administrator configure and switch on such flyouts to inform my users about upcoming maintenance?

Instana

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PHP 8.3 support

PHP 8.3 was released on 23 Nov 2023. Instana only supports 8.2, see https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-php#supported-versions
11 months ago in Instana / PHP 1 Functionality already exists

Installing the host agent on HP-UX Operating System

Support installing the host agent on HP-UX Operating System.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Add End User's IP Address and Hostname to INSTANA's Action Logs and Access Logs

This will help companies in regulated industries like Banking to feel more confident their data is secure and identify security incidents. This is a requirement for PCI Certification.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

Integrate Apdex

Can Apdex scoring be integrated into Instana metric scoring? Apdex is an industry standard to measure users' satisfaction with the response time of web applications and services. It's a simplified Service Level Agreement (SLA) solution that helps ...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / SLO/SLI (STAN) 1 Planned for future release

Metrics for Websites not stored for more than 7 days (historic data / representative sample)

Problem:------This is the case on the default Website Dashboard as well as for the Custom Instana Dashboards.When checking this in detail, we recognized no separate metrics and that the data is completely based on website (trace) data.Is this a bu...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Real User Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Logging add HTTP Header into the log parameters

Hello, Here is some infos about the request. We highly use custom headers to get contextual informations about HTTP calls . For instance device type, application version etc ..Currently we can filter these informations on the view Application> ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Logging 0 Not under consideration

Logging Level Info

Hello, Today the feature 'Logs' provide only warning and error log levels.We would find it valuable to also have a log level info because it provides a lot of contextual infos. One thing to point out is that if log levels info would be tracked in ...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Logging 1 Future consideration

INSTANA Agent to detect external intrusion

Hi, Could you manage the implementation of a feature where the INSTANA agent will be able to detect a tentative of intrusion on a host or some malware trying to use a vulnerability in the application.
over 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

tracing for work manager and data source of WebLgic

We want to trace the following WebLogic metrics: - as for work manager, execution thread count and queue retention count - as for data source, connection count and connection wait count
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Instana Health / Issue State queryable via API or Grafana Metrics

Introduction:-------------We have several Teams, which use internal Dashboard-Tools, which query multiple data sources (new-relic, check_mk, Prometheus, Splunk, etc., Openshift).These Tools make use of Health checks and Meta Informations.While mig...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / API-C 1 Not under consideration